The first 100 days as a Renovate maintainer: the shocking inside view of a popular Open Source project (18 mins read).
Lessons learned from the first 100 days as my role as a Renovate maintainer, and a sneak peek into how the project works behind the scenes.
Week Notes 26#03 (1 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2026-01-12?
by 
Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Authoring Markdown externally and pasting the 'pretty' output into Slack (on Mac) (2 mins read).
How to use copy the rendered representation of Markdown into a rich-text form into Slack, on Mac.
Getting access to rich-text data from the clipboard (on Mac) (1 mins read).
How to retrieve rich-text output from the clipboard.
Creating a TUI for keeping an eye on GitHub Rate Limits (1 mins read).
Sharing ghrl, a Terminal User Interface (TUI) for monitoring rate limits for GitHub Apps.
2025's podcasts in review (3 mins read).
What podcasts did I listen to in 2025?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#podcast.
Week Notes 26#02 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2026-01-05?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Why the Renovate project uses GitHub Discussions as our triage process (16 mins read).
A dive into what we've learned over 5 years of using GitHub Discussions as our space to triage user questions.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#renovate
#open-source.
Week Notes 26#01 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-12-29?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
2025's Music In Review (1 mins read).
What music was I listening to in 2025?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#music.
2025's Site In Review (7 mins read).
How did my site perform in 2025?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#www.jvt.me.
Week Notes 25#52 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-12-22?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 25#51 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-12-15?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 25#50 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-12-08?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
I'm on Open Source Security: Updating open source dependencies (1 mins read).
Announcing my appearance as a guest on the Open Source Security podcast, talking about Renovate and dependency updates more generally.
Week Notes 25#49 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-12-01?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 25#48 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-11-24?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 25#47 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-11-17?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Worries about Open Source in the age of LLMs (6 mins read).
Some concerns I have with moving towards "don't use Open Source, get an LLM to generate the code you want" and where it'll take us.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#llm
#ai
#licensing
#open-source.
Week Notes 25#46 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-11-10?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
November 2025's Desert Island Discs (1 mins read).
Defining the 8 songs I'd take to a desert island (if I had the choice, of course).
by Jamie Tanna
.
#music.
Week Notes 25#45 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-11-03?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Building a more secure npm ecosystem with Mend Renovate (5 mins read).
Discover how Mend Renovate 42 is strengthening npm ecosystem security with "minimum release age” enforcement and best-practice defaults.
Week Notes 25#44 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-10-27?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 25#43 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-10-20?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Finding missing releaseTimestamps in Renovate (3 mins read).
How to query your Renovate debug logs (or renovate-graph exports) for missing release timestamps.
Adding type hints to Renovate config.js files (1 mins read).
How to add JSDoc type hints to a config.js Renovate global self-hosting configuration file.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#renovate
#neovim
#javascript
#typescript.
Week Notes 25#42 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-10-13?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 25#41 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-10-06?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 25#40 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-09-29?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 25#39 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-09-22?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Creating a gh CLI extension for creating GitHub Discussions via category forms (2 mins read).
Announcing gh-discussions, an extension for the GitHub CLI that allows creating GitHub Discussions via category forms.
Week Notes 25#38 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-09-15?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 25#37 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-09-08?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Using jqp for interactive queries with jq (1 mins read).
How you can use jqp to improve your experience with writing queries with jq.
Determining the digest for a GitHub Action (2 mins read).
A couple of different ways to look up the digest for a GitHub Action to pin it, as per best practices.
Setting up govulncheck in GitHub Actions with GitHub Code Scanning alerts (2 mins read).
How to set up govulncheck to check for CVEs in your Go projects using GitHub Actions and have the results show up as a GitHub Code Scanning alert.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#go
#github-actions
#oapi-codegen
#security.
Gotcha: referencing symlinks with go:embed result in irregular file errors (2 mins read).
Why you may see irregular file errors in Go, if you're trying to go:embed a symbolic link.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#go.
Week Notes 25#36 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-09-01?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Starless: How we accidentally vanished our most popular GitHub repos (11 mins read).
How a change targeting internal GitHub repositories backfired and inadvertently made Elastic's public-facing repositories private.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#elastic
#open-source.
Week Notes 25#35 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-08-25?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
I'm joining Mend to work on Renovate full-time (7 mins read).
Announcing my move to new job, working on Renovate (CLI and Enterprise) full-time, and looking back at my time at Elastic.
Additional lessons learned running Renovate at scale (14 mins read).
Some of the things I've learned about monitoring the usage of Renovate 'at scale' of hundreds of repositories.
Week Notes 25#34 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-08-18?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 25#33 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-08-11?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
GopherCon UK 2025 (10 mins read).
A writeup of the GopherCon UK 2025 conference.
Clearing Language Server Protocol (LSP) diagnostics in Neovim (1 mins read).
How to clear all diagnostic messages from your current buffer, in Neovim.
Running Docker images from other architectures, on Linux (1 mins read).
How to run an ARM64 Docker container when running on AMD64, on Linux.
Week Notes 25#32 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-08-04?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 25#31 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-07-28?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.